Former Senator Scott Brown not ruling out a run in New Hampshire -- again

Former Senator Scott Brown reiterated this morning that he hadn’t ruled out a run against Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, a day after he said the same thing during a speech at an event in Manchester, N.H.

Asked about a potential New Hampshire Senate bid on FOX News this morning, Brown, a Republican who lives in Wrentham, said he had no comment. But pressed on whether he had ruled it out, he said, “Nothing’s off the table, and nothing’s on the table. Right now I’m recharging the batteries and working hard.”

“Sounds like an endorsement from the guru,” host Chris Wallace chimed in.

At a National Guard Association of New Hampshire state conference in Manchester on Saturday, Brown emphasized his local roots to reporters there.

“I think it’s important to note that I do have ties to New Hampshire,” he said. “Nine generations of ties to New Hampshire,” he said, according to a video on the Londonderry Patch.

He also used the same phrasing about a potential run, saying, “Nothing’s off the table, but nothing’s on the table either.”

Brown’s speech struck some political notes, according to WMUR.

“Guess what?” Brown said. “Washington is broken.”

Brown owns a home in Rye, N.H. He refused to rule out a run in the Granite State after a speech in Nashua earlier this month.

Shaheen, a former governor, won her first term in the Senate in 2008. She is up for re-election in 2014 and had $431,000 in her federal campaign account at the end of 2012.

Brown, who serves in the National Guard, is a FOX News contributor and an attorney at the Boston law firm of Nixon Peabody. He lost a re-election bid to now Senator Elizabeth Warren in November and ended 2012 with $287,000 in his federal campaign account.